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The Siverskyi Donets ((ウクライナ語:''Сіверський Донець'')) or Seversky Donets ((ロシア語:''Северский Донец'')), usually simply called the Donets, is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It is the fourth longest river in Ukraine. Donets originates in the Central Russian Upland, north of Belgorod, flows south-east through Ukraine (Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts) and then again through Russia (Rostov Oblast) to join the Don River, about from the Sea of Azov. The Donets is the fourth largest river in Ukraine and the biggest in the Eastern Ukraine. It is an important source of fresh water in the east of the country. It gives its name to the Donets Basin, known commonly as the Donbass, an important coal mining region in Ukraine. ==Etymology== The name ''Don'' and its diminutive, 'Donet'' are derived from Iranic, Sarmatian "the river".〔Mallory, J.P. and Victor H. Mair. ''The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West''. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. p. 106〕 According to V. Abaev (expert on Scytho-Sarmatian languages) the name Don derives from Iranic, Scythian-Sarmatian ''Dānu'' (river) 〔(Абаев В. И. Осетинский язык и фольклор (Ossetian language and folklore). Moscow: Publishing house of Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1949. P. 236 )〕 Scytho-Sarmatians inhabited the areas to the north of the Black Sea from 1100 BC into the early medieval times. In the 2nd century CE Ptolemy knew the Don River, into which the Donets flows, as ''Tanais'', and Western Europeans recognized that the Don had a significant tributary which they called either the small Tanais or ''Donetz''. The Slavic name of ''Seversky Donets'' derived from the fact that the river originates from the land of Severians. As the Italian-Polish chronicler Alexander Guagnini (1538-1614) wrote: "There is also another, small Tanais, which originates in the Seversky Principality (for this reason it is called Donets Seversky) and flows into the large Tanais above Azov".〔 (Alexander Guagnini. ''Description of Muscovy'' ) 1997 reprint (in Russian): Есть также другой, малый Танаис, который берёт своё начало в Северском княжестве (поэтому он называется Донец Северский) и выше Азова впадает в большой Танаис. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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